From the holiest city of India, Varanasi, I am very excited to announce that from today, I am part of the new team of writers for Rolf Pott’s Vagabonding. As you can see, for the occasion I partied with the sexiest holy cows at Dasasvamedha ghat

Yes. I have been keeping this hidden for a few weeks, but now it is time to disclose. For all those who still do not know, Rolf Potts is the author of Vagabonding: an uncommon guide to the art of long-term world travel and an accomplished American travel writer who has had a past not too dissimilar from my present. Together with other eight writers, I will have to dispense some pearls of vagabonding travel writing on a weekly basis, and more precisely, every Thursday at 12.00 pm, American Eastern Standard Time. Please keep tuned, set up your RSS readers, and enjoy.

I can just say that, as much as I am stoked being on board – especially being the only non-American in the group -, I am also greatly excited and feeling like something is finally moving towards the right direction, after all these years biting the dust. I will try not to disappoint my old readers, and the new ones, trying to keep the standard to the highest level possible during this year of travels. A year of the Monkey, I’d say, misguided for a Dragon…